What are the UN’s Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals? By Mary Gilbert, QEW Representative to the UN The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) came out of the UN Millennium Summit in 2000. There are eight goals (see sidebar, right), intended to improve...
Life and Death in the Galápagos
By Richard Grossman We had just seen a Galápagos hawk soaring overhead when we heard an incongruous sound: here were cats mewing beside the path. I caught a glimpse of a tabby kitten with the bluest eyes. “I like cats,” our guide said, “but I’ll have...
Galápagos: Lessons from Finches, Marine Iguanas, and Islands
By Tom Small Now, as we careen into the Anthropocene era, the human species has seemingly become the prime mover of ever-accelerating change; but we are nonetheless subject to it. Subject to inexorable processes of evolution. “In this changing world everything...
Notes of Gratitude
Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar Blossoming and Building at Finca La...
On Synthetic Biology
By Anne Mitchell, General Secretary Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar...
See You in Colorado This Summer
Shelley Tanenbaum Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar Blossoming and...
Catching Up with Barbara Williamson
Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar Blossoming and Building at Finca La...
Inviting Your Support
Anne Mitchell, QEW General Secretary Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar...
Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar
Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar Blossoming and Building at Finca La...
Making Space for Young Adult Leadership
By Emily Higgs Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar Blossoming and Building...
Letters from Our Readers
Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar Blossoming and Building at Finca La...
Bringing Hope & Action to Our Earth Witness
by Dick Grossman, Durango (CO) Friends Meeting Our co-housing community is on ranch land, much of which has been abandoned to wildlife. Our housing cluster is in the middle of this beautiful land. Unfortunately, there are several fence lines with rusted barbed wire...
One Week at Doha
by Oliver Robertson Associate Representative at QUNO and QEW Representative to COP 18 It always seems impossible until it is done. –Nelson Mandela This is one of the inspiring phrases sitting on my desk at the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva, a...
Calling All Voices
by Mary Gilbert, QEW Representative to the UN I’ve been going to the United Nations for 12 years now, witnessing how the nations of the world deal with human impact on our planet’s health. Everyone acknowledges that certain problems, such as ocean acidification, sea...
Queries on Faith and Genetics
Submitted by Anne Mitchell Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally A City of Two Tales Bringing Hope &...
Sustainability and QEW
by Anne Mitchell, QEW General Secretary Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally A City of Two Tales Bringing...
A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator
by Louis Cox, Outgoing QEW Publications Coordinator Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally A City of Two Tales...
Don’t Give Up Your Leading
by David Millar, Montreal Friends Meeting Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally A City of Two Tales Bringing...
When Will We Wake?
by Angela Manno, Fifteenth Street Meeting (NY) Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally A City of Two Tales...
Think Globally, Act Locally
by Carolyn Hiatt, Indianapolis (IN) First Friends Meeting Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally A City of Two...
